Established in 2000, Moneypenny is the world’s market leader for telephone answering, live chat, outsourced switchboard and customer contact solutions. Moneypenny handles more than 2 million legal calls and live chats each year for more than 1,000 legal firms in the UK, including 60 of the Top 200, thanks to its dedicated team of legal PAs. Communication is key for law firms and in a busy marketplace, first impressions are crucial. The way inbound enquiries are answered gives clues as to a firm’s values, priorities and approach to service. Whether it’s dealing with existing clients, hand ..read more

I wanted to go into sports. I was a sailing instructor, close to professional. But then I had knee issues, so I needed to change my plans last minute. I still do a lot of exercise, but I hate the gym. That’s how I relax, reflect, enjoy myself, and get energy. I do a lot of sport with my sons, who are all into sailing, biking, jogging, and skiing. I can still keep up with them on the bike, but in skiing I have no chance! I never planned to be a lawyer. When I started my law course I focused on international public law – the United Nations, NATO and international treaties. I wanted to be a dipl ..read more

Eversheds Sutherland, Allen & Overy and Womble Bond Dickinson were among the major winners at the inaugural Legal 500 UK ESG Awards 2024, which welcomed more than 400 guests to the InterContinental London Park Lane on 24 April. The evening saw Eversheds win ESG Firm of the Year after impressing the judges with consistently strong entries across all three ESG pillars, while the firm also took home the DE&I: Law Firm Initiative of the Year for Eversheds Unlocked, which has now supported approximately 1,300 students since its inception in 2008. ESG Champion of the Year went to Linkl ..read more

Access your pdf version of the Disputes Yearbook 2024. Editor’s Letter Welcome to the latest edition of the Disputes Yearbook from the Legal 500 and Legal Business; a special edition marking ten years of our annual guide to all things contentious, and a must-read for every self-respecting litigator. Foreword – Stewarts: Groundhog Day? A quick scan of the inevitable January opinion pieces predicting trends in the litigation market for the year ahead gives a fairly consistent view of topics we are likely to see. Holding court – cases of the year From group actions to competition claims and ESG ..read more

If any trend is set to define the London disputes market in 2024, it is the continued rise of group litigation. A vast array of mass claims are winding their way through the courts, spurred on by an increased willingness to adapt to the challenges of case management, heightened awareness of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues on the parts of corporates and the general public, the maturing of the claimant Bar, and the development of the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) regime – including the rise of the first opt-out class actions. The comprehensive failure of ClientEarth’s de ..read more

When Legal Business first launched its Disputes Yearbook back in 2014 Brexit was barely on the radar, most people had not heard of Wuhan and post-financial crisis disputes work and oligarchs were helping firms cast aside any doubts about how sustainable further disputes growth was at either the biggest players in the City or the boutiques spinning out from them. While much has changed, many of the key market players are still the same today and some of the bigger trends keeping litigators busy now were still evident a decade ago – albeit in nascent form. Take one of the biggest disputes stori ..read more

With the marked increase in group litigation and rapid development of the litigation funding industry, the Competition Appeal Tribunal is consistently seeing novel claims. New theories of dominance are appearing, with what actually constitutes a dominant position widening. And the type of claim presented to the tribunal is expanding, with an increasing number of ESG claims filed. As the only court in the jurisdiction to allow for opt-out group litigation, the CAT is the only means by which North American style class actions can be brought. Supporters of the expansion of the CAT’s domain and t ..read more

Please see below for a link to an online pdf of the Energy Yearbook 2024. Disputes Yearbook 2024 complete pdf link Return to Disputes Yearbook 2024 contents. The post Disputes Yearbook 2024 – online PDF appeared first on Legal Business ..read more

Disputes is one of the broadest areas of work covered by the Legal 500; while commercial litigation accounts for over half of all of our disputes rankings, a diverse range of specialisms also fall under the disputes umbrella, from professional discipline and commodities to debt recovery and costs. In London, Herbert Smith Freehills, Quinn Emanuel and DLA Piper have the most rankings with seven, but HSF stands alone as the only firm with five top-tier rankings, and also holds the most individual rankings, with 30. Three HSF partners have two rankings – public international law head Andrew Cann ..read more

As the latest edition of Legal Business went to press in late April, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Shearman & Sterling were working to a deadline of their own – the 1 May go-live date for their mega-merger. The headline figures are undeniable – A&O Shearman will come into existence with 4,000 lawyers in 48 offices across 29 countries, as well as $3.5bn in revenue; enough to rocket it up to fourth place in the Global 100. However, the future success of the firm depends to a large extent on the success of the integration process, which will now be handled by a new leadership team afte ..read more